Past Elevate Training

The Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School was designed to advance proteomics-driven research across Africa by equipping postgraduate scientists with essential conceptual and practical skills relevant to both academia and industry. The programme offered a rich environment for collaboration, bringing participants together through meet-the-experts sessions, roundtable discussions, and poster presentations. Certificates of attendance were provided for personal training records.

The curriculum followed a parallel-track lecture format:   

• Concepts Track – An introduction to the foundations of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics, covering experimental design, sample preparation, quantitative LC-MS workflows, data quality control, processing, and annotation.   

  
  

• Applications Track – A practical guide to the strengths and limitations of quantitative approaches, using instrument-specific datasets to teach set-up, extraction, processing, and quality-assessment workflows.   

  
  

For industry partners, the school provided a platform to engage with emerging researchers and leverage Africa’s unique biodiversity for collaborative work in disease detection, personalised medicine, food safety, and food security.